The Clarinet Concerto in A, K622, completed in 1791, the year of Mozart’s death, marked his farewell to instrumental music. It was also the first clarinet concerto to be written by a major composer – ...

Taking advantage of the new expressive possibilities opened up by improvements in the design of the clarinet, Mozart created a concerto of exquisite beauty — one of the last works he would ever write.

Collaboration yields beautiful things. When the Dallas Symphony Orchestra debuts Jon Cziner’s new piece, Clarinet Concerto, Nov. 20 – 22 at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, the audience will ...

Christopher Theofanidis’s “Indigo Heaven” was well, well worth the wait. Chicago Symphony audiences expected to hear the American composer’s clarinet concerto, written for CSO principal clarinetist ...

As John Corigliano's first commission from the New York Philharmonic, the Clarinet Concerto launched his career into the stratosphere. Premiered in 1977 under the baton of Leonard Bernstein, the ...

Nobody has ever written for the clarinet quite like Mozart. He transformed it into the next best thing to the human voice; and in its repertoire there can be no works better loved than his Concerto ...

Of five new or recent compositions booked on four Dallas Symphony Orchestra programs lately, only one is by a Dallas-based composer - and conceived for a specific DSO musician. With a doctorate from ...

As is increasingly the fashion, Martin Fröst plays Mozart's Clarinet Concerto on a basset clarinet, the instrument with the extended lower range that Anton Stadler used for the first performance in ...

The Carl Nielsen International Competition winners get the personality of the Danish composer’s last large-scale orchestral pieces spot on In 1921, Carl Nielsen heard the Copenhagen Wind Quintet for ...